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Recent Examples of padrone
Instead, much of this awkward English-language period piece focuses on peasants’ struggle to overthrow padrone control just after the First World War.
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Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 June 2023
Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for padrone
Noun
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Stay At The Inn At Bald Head Island Let owners and innkeepers Gail and Dann Jackson spoil you with hospitality at this charming bed and breakfast located in Harbor Village.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
17 Oct. 2025
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The celebratory July 4 meal would certainly have kept the innkeeper, Daniel Smith, busy replenishing the finest bottles of Madeira from behind the locked bar—perhaps overhearing snippets of chatter among the delegates.—
Victoria Flexner,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The place is the Savin Bar + Kitchen, in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, where immediately inside the front door, patrons are greeted by a larger-than-life framed mugshot of Bulger — the mob-boss, murderer, bank robber, drug dealer and extortionist — peering cooly out from under his fedora.—
Tovia Smith,
NPR,
24 Oct. 2025
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On May 5, 2024, patrons called police to report a security guard pointing a rifle at people.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Some rent reporting services require your landlord or property manager to verify payments, while others allow renters to self-report by submitting bank statements or other proof.—
Layla Melendez,
CNBC,
30 Oct. 2025
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California law says any fee charged by a landlord with the purpose to protect a landlord against damage to a property, such as a pet deposit, should be treated legally as a refundable security deposit.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Padrone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/padrone. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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